Francis Parkman - France and England in N America, Part V - Count Frontenac, New France, Louis XIV

Plumitif du Conseil Souverain, 1681.

Conduite du Sieur Perrot, Gouverneur de Montréal en la Nouvelle France , 1681; Plainte du Sieur Bouthier , 10 Oct. , 1680; Procès-verbal des huissiers de Montréal .

Conduite du Sieur Perrot . La Barre, Frontenac's successor, declares that the charges against Perrot were false, including the attestations of Migeon and his friends; that Dollier de Casson had been imposed upon, and that various persons had been induced to sign unfounded statements without reading them. La Barre au Ministre, 4 Nov., 1683.

Le Roy à Frontenac, 30 Avril, 1681.

La Barre says that Duchesneau was far more to blame than Frontenac. La Barre au Ministre, 1683. This testimony has weight, since Frontenac's friends were La Barre's enemies.

Registre du Conseil-Supérieur , 16 Fév., 1682.

Frontenac, Mémoire adressé à Colbert , 1677. This remarkable paper will be found in the Découvertes et Établissements des Français dans l'Amérique Septentrionale; Mémoires et Documents Originaux, edited by M. Margry. The paper is very long, and contains references to attestations and other proofs which accompanied it, especially in regard to the trade of the Jesuits.

Note by Abbé Verreau, in Journal de l'Instruction Publique (Canada), VIII. 127.

Chartier de Lotbinière, Procès-verbal sur l'Incendie de la Basse Ville; Meules au Ministre, 6 Oct., 1682; Juchereau, Histoire de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, 256.

Meules au Ministre, 6 Oct., 1682.

Jesuits in North America.

Discovery of the Great West.

Duchesneau, Memoir on Western Indians in N. Y. Colonial Docs., IX. 160.

For the papers on this affair, see N. Y. Colonial Docs ., IX.

P. Jean de Lamberville à Frontenac , 20 Sept ., 1682.

La Barre au Roy , (4 Oct.?) 1682.

La Barre à Seignelay , 1682.

He was made governor of Cayenne, and went thither with Tracy in 1664. Two years later, he gained several victories over the English, and recaptured Cayenne, which they had taken in his absence. He wrote a book concerning this colony, called Description de la France Équinoctiale . Another volume, called Journal du Voyage du Sieur de la Barre en la Terre Ferme et Isle de Cayenne , was printed at Paris in 1671.

La Barre à Seignelay , 1682.

Conference on the State of Affairs with the Iroquois, Oct ., 1682, in N. Y. Colonial Docs ., IX. 194.

La Barre au Ministre , 4 Nov ., 1683.

La Barre au Roy , 30 Mai , 1683.

La Barre au Ministre , 30 Mai , 1683.

Meules au Roy , 2 Juin , 1683.

Soon after La Barre's arrival, La Chesnaye is said to have induced him to urge the Iroquois to plunder all traders who were not provided with passports from the governor. The Iroquois complied so promptly, that they stopped and pillaged, at Niagara, two canoes belonging to La Chesnaye himself, which had gone up the lakes in Frontenac's time, and therefore were without passports. Recueil de ce qui s'est passé en Canada au Sujet de la Guerre, etc., depuis l'année 1682. (Published by the Historical Society of Quebec.) This was not the only case in which the weapons of La Barre and his partisans recoiled against themselves.

Belmont, Histoire du Canada (a contemporary chronicle).

See Discovery of the Great West. La Barre denies the assertion, and says that he merely told the Iroquois that La Salle should be sent home.

Mémoire adressé a MM. les Intéressés en la Société de la Ferme et Commerce du Canada, 1683.

These statements are made in a memorial of the agents of the custom-house, in letters of Meules, and in several other quarters. La Barre is accused of sending furs to Albany under pretext of official communication with the governor of New York.

Meules à Seignelay, 8 July, 1684. This accords perfectly with statements made in several memorials of La Salle and his friends.

There appears no doubt that La Barre brought this upon himself. His successor, Denonville, writes that the Iroquois declared that, in plundering the canoes, they thought they were executing the orders they had received to plunder La Salle's people. Denonville, Mémoire adressé ou Ministre sur les Affaires de la Nouvelle France, 10 Août, 1688. The Iroquois told Dongan, in 1684, "that they had not don any thing to the French but what Monsr. delaBarr Ordered them, which was that if they mett with any French hunting without his passe to take what they had from them." Dongan to Denonville, 9 Sept., 1687.

"Ce qui mit M. de la Barre en fureur." Belmont, Histoire du Canada .

La Barre au Roy , 5 Juin , 1684.

Sir John Werden to Dongan , 4 Dec ., 1684; N. Y. Col. Docs ., III. 353. Werden was the duke's secretary.

Dongan has been charged with instigating the Iroquois to attack the French. The Jesuit Lamberville, writing from Onondaga, says, on the contrary, that he hears that the "governor of New England ( New York ), when the Mohawk chiefs asked him to continue the sale of powder to them, replied that it should be continued so long as they would not make war on Christians." Lamberville à La Barre , 10 Fév ., 1684.

The French ambassador at London complained that Dongan excited the Iroquois to war, and Dongan denied the charge. N. Y. Col. Docs ., III. 506, 509.

Report of Conferences at Albany, in Colden, History of the Five Nations , 50 (ed. 1727, Shea's reprint).

La Barre à Dongan , 15 Juin , 1684.

Dongan à La Barre , 24 Juin , 1684.

Speech of the Onondagas and Cayugas, in Colden, Five Nations , 63 (1727).

Except the small tribe of the Oneidas, who addressed Corlaer as Father. Corlaer was the official Iroquois name of the governor of New York; Onas (the Feather, or Pen), that of the governor of Pennsylvania; and Assarigoa (the Big Knife, or Sword), that of the governor of Virginia. Corlaer, or Cuyler, was the name of a Dutchman whom the Iroquois held in great respect.

Journal of Wentworth Greenhalgh , 1677, in N. Y. Col. Docs ., III. 250.